500+ Famous Quotes – Most Inspirational Quotes Of All Time

Within the embroidered artwork of human history, a few words stand out as reference points of wisdom and motivation, directing us through life’s journey. These are the most excellent sayings of all time: everlasting pearls that capture the essence of the human condition. Whether penned by great philosophers, iconic leaders, or beloved authors, these quotes have an enduring power to move and motivate us.

People turn to these quotes for various reasons. They seek comfort in times of hardship, draw strength to overcome challenges, and find clarity amidst confusion. Best famous quotes provide solace during sorrow, spark courage when fear grips us, and offer guidance when life’s uncertain path. These nuggets of wisdom transcend generations and cultures, connecting us to the collective wisdom of humanity.

In looking at the most popular quotes, we will examine the words that have significantly impacted history, motivated people to make a difference, and still strongly affect our emotions and thoughts. Come with us as we explore the wise ideas of some of the world’s most respected thinkers and achievers.

Best Famous Quotes All Time

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.- Nelson Mandela

 

I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.– Marilyn Monroe

 

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world. – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

 

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.- Albert Einstein

 

If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.-  Mark Zuckerberg

 

You can do anything, but not everything.- David Alen

 

The Way Get Started Is To Quit Talking And Begin Doing. – Walt Disney

 

When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.- Paulo Coelho

 

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “I’m possible”! — Audrey Hepburn

 

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. –  George Bernard Shaw

 

The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust
Burn to the socket.– William Wordsworth

 

Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. – Coco Chanel

 

It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known.-  Charles Dickens

 

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. – Steve Jobs

 

Get busy living or get busy dying. – Stephen King

 

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

 

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.- William Shakespeare

 

Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.” Sara Blakely

 

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.- Antoine de Saint-Exupér

 

The Pessimist Sees Difficulty In Every Opportunity. The Optimist Sees Opportunity In Every Difficulty.– Winston Churchill

 

There are three things you can do with your life: You can waste it, you can spend it, or you can invest it. The best use of your life is to invest it in something that will last longer than your time on Earth.-
Rick Warren

 

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. — Maya Angelou

 

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.- John Dewey

 

Hitch your wagon to a star.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a one size fits all standard for happiness. – Kanye West

 

Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.- Diana Vreeland

 

The unexamined life is not worth living.- Socrates

 

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.- J.R.R. Tolkein

 

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.-Eleanor Roosevelt

 

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.– Mark Caine

 

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.- Mother Teresa

 

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.- Henry Ford

 

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.- Wayne Gretzky

 

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.- Maya Angelou

 

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness.- John Keats

 

Good nature and good sense must ever join; To err is human; to forgive, divine.- Alexander Pope

 

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.– Tony Robbins

 

It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea.- Edgar Allan Poe

 

Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.- Gianni Versace

 

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.– Ludwig Wittgenstein

 

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.–  J.K. Rowling

 

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” –Oprah Winfrey

 

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.– Helen Keller

 

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.- Buddha 

 

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.– Arianna Huffington

 

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.- Ambrose Redmoon

 

You only pass through this life once, you don’t come back for an encore.- Elvis Presley

 

God helps those that help themselves.- Benjamin Franklin

 

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.– Aristotle

 

Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore –Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!”Quoth the Raven “Nevermore”.– Edgar Allan Poe

 

One is never over-dressed or under-dressed with a Little Black Dress.- Karl Lagerfeld

 

Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily. – William of Ockham

 

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.– W.B. Yeats

 

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success. – James Cameron

 

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.– Mark Twain

 

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.- Coco Chanel

 

I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.- Steve Jobs

 

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.- Gandhi

 

Never rest on your laurels. Nothing wilts faster than a laurel sat upon.- Mary Kay

 

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.- Robert Frost

 

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.– Lao Tzu

 

A date which will live in infamy.-  Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.- Miuccia Prada

 

The life of man (in a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short– Thomas Hobbes

 

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.– Emily Bronte

 

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.- John Lennon

 

When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.– Audre Lorde

 

Stay hungry, stay foolish.- Steve Jobs

 

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.- Martha Stewart

 

When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.- Lin-Chi

 

You could be the world’s best garbage man, the world’s best model; it don’t matter what you do if you’re the best.- Muhammad Ali 

 

Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat.- Rudyard Kipling

 

I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.- Albert Einstein

 

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.- Mahatma Gandhi

 

I like my money right where I can see it…hanging in my closet.-Carrie Bradshaw

 

I think therefore I am” (“Cogito, ergo sum”) – René Descartes

 

But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun.- William Shakespeare

 

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. – Mother Teresa

 

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.– Eleanor Roosevelt

 

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.- Plato

 

If you’re hurt, lick your wounds and get up again. If you’ve given it your absolute best, it’s time to move forward.- Richard Branson

 

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.- A. A. Milne

 

Peace begins with a smile.- Mother Teresa

 

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.- Abraham Lincoln

 

If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.–  Sheryl Sandberg

 

Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.- John F. Kenned

 

I think there is beauty in everything. What ‘normal’ people perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.- Alexander McQueen

 

He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errors. – Martin Heidegger

 

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.– Alfred Lord Tennyson

 

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. –Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.– David Brinkley

 

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.- Malcolm X

 

If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.- Larry Page

 

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit. – Anne Frank

 

Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.- Jesus

 

Style is something each of us already has, all we need to do is find it. –Diane von Furstenberg

 

We live in the best of all possible worlds – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

 

Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone … just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.- F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. – Margaret Mead

 

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.– John F. Kennedy

 

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. –Bruce Lee

 

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.- Anita Roddick

 

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.-Abraham Maslow

 

I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter.- Elllen DeGeneres

 

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.- Robert Louis Stevenson

 

I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.- Herbert Bayard Swope

 

A great man is always willing to be little.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.- Albert Einstein

 

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.- David Ogilvy

 

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.- Aristotle

 

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

You get what you settle for.– Thelma and Louise

 

What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. – G. W. F. Hegel

 

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.- Harper Lee

 

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.- Eleanor Roosevelt

 

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.– Thomas J. Watson

 

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mahatma Gandhi

 

When life gets you down do you wanna know what you’ve gotta do? Just keep swimming! – Dory, Finding Nemo

 

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.- Baltasar Gracian

 

Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential.-
Anthony Robbins

 

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. – T. S. Eliot

 

Fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life.­-Bill Cunningham

 

God is dead! He remains dead! And we have killed him.– Friedrich Nietzsche

 

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.– William Shakespeare

 

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.- Benjamin Franklin

 

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.– Theodore Roosevelt

 

No matter who you are or what you look like, how you started off, or how and who you love, America is a place where you can write your own destiny.- Barack Obama

 

Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what outside, but what is inside that counts.-  Aladdin

 

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. –Basho

 

Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.- Henry Ford

 

Only those who play to win. Only those who risk to win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary.– Iveta Cherneva

 

I don’t design clothes. I design dreams.— Ralph Lauren

 

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. – Albert Camus

 

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise. – A.A. Milne

 

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.- Helen Keller

 

I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.– Abraham Lincoln

 

Turn your wounds into wisdom.- Oprah Winfrey

 

Some people are worth melting for.-  Olaf, Frozen

 

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. –  Lao-Tze

 

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. – George Eliot

 

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this, and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.– Marissa Mayer

 

Fashions fade, style is eternal.— Yves Saint Laurent

 

One cannot step twice in the same river. – Heraclitus

 

Not all those who wander are lost.- J.R.R. Tolkein

 

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. – Aristotle

 

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.– Lucille Ball

 

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.- Anne Frank

 

If everybody were like everybody else, how boring it would be. The things that make me different are the things that make me, Me!- Winnie the Pooh

 

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

 

Happiness doesn’t come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.- Wilferd Peterson

 

If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.– Dhirubhai Ambani

 

Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing. — Alexander Wang

 

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation” – Jeremy Bentham

 

The Answer to the ultimate question of Life, The Universe and Everything is…42! –Douglas Adams

 

Every artist was first an amateur.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 person’s a person, no matter how small. — Dr. Seuss

 

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. – Mark Twain

 

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.-Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. – Mother Theresa

 

Whatever you are, be a good one.- Abraham Lincoln

 

You’re mad, bonkers, off your head! But I’ll tell you a secret: all the best people are.- Alice in Wonderland

 

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. – John Ruskin

 

What counts can’t always be counted; what can be counted doesn’t always count.- Albert Einstein

 

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.– Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?—Sonia Rykiel

 

To be is to be perceived” (“Esse est percipi”)– Bishop George Berkeley

 

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. – “Grandma” Moses

 

Adults are just outdated children.  — Dr. Seuss

 

Creativity takes courage.- Henri Matisse

 

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson

 

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.- Joshua J. Marine

 

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.- Theodore Roosevelt

 

The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.- Mulan

 

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.- Marcel Proust

 

You’re not defined by your past; you’re prepared by it. You’re stronger, more experienced, and you have greater confidence.- Joel Osteen

 

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.– Anais Nin

 

In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous.—Elsa Schiaparelli

 

Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination – Immanuel Kant

 

he best revenge is massive success. – Frank Sinatra quote

 

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children. — Nelson Mandela

 

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.– Pablo Picasso

 

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.-Benjamin Franklin

 

Love is a serious mental disease.– Plato

 

Little by little, one travels far.- J.R.R. Tolkien

 

Always let your conscience be your guide! The Blue Fairy, Pinocchio

 

Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.- Virgil Garnett Thomson

 

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.- Thomas Edison

 

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson

 

You gotta have style. It helps you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It’s a way of life. Without it, you’re nobody. I’m not talking about lots of clothes. — Diana Vreeland

 

No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience – John Locke

 

I walk slowly but never backwards.– Abraham Lincoln

 

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them. — Lady Bird Johnson 

 

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.- Thomas Merton

 

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller

 

Our greatest fear should not be of failure… but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. – Francis Chan

 

It’s not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it’s who you are.- Elvis Presley

 

If you can DREAM, you can DO it ­- Walt Disney

 

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. – Will Rogers

 

The ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable skill you can learn.- Napoleon Hill

 

Life is being on the wire, everything else is just waiting.– Karl Wallenda

 

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.— Vivienne Westwood

 

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us – Niccolo Machiavelli

 

The path to success is to take massive determined action.– Tony Robbins

 

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. — Margaret Mead

 

We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.- Bob Ross

 

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. –Aristotle

 

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.– Leonardo Da Vinci

 

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. – Bruce Lee

 

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm –  Winston Churchill

 

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.- Zig Ziglar

 

You’re not defined by your past; you’re prepared by it. You’re stronger, more experienced, and you have greater confidence.- Joel Osteen

 

Pearls don’t lie on the seashore. If you want one, you must dive for it. –  Chinese proverb

 

You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet. — Christian Dior

 

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language – Ludwig Wittgenstein

 

A strong positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success. – Dr. Joyce Brothers

 

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.  — Charles R. Swindoll, Evangelical Christian pastor

 

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.- Jerzy Kosinski

 

Whoever is happy will make others happy too. – Anne Frank

 

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

 

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything. – Malcolm X

 

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all . – Catherine the Great

 

 Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. — John Wilmot

 

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil. – Thomas Edison

 

It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot

 

Fashion is what you’re offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.— Lauren Hutton

 

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. – William James

 

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. – Roger Staubach

 

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. — Frederick Douglass, abolitionist and statesman

 

Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do. – Edgar Degas

 

You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated. – Maya Angelou

 

It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.– J. K Rowling

 

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.- Coco Chanel 

 

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left. –Oscar Levant

 

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.-  Confucius

 

Ability is of little account without opportunity.- Lucille Ball

 

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. – Ayn Rand

 

he dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress. — Hubert de Givenchy

 

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle

 

I attribute my success to this: I never took nor gave any excuses. – Florence Nightingale

 

Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.  — Wess Stafford, President Emeritus of Compassion Internationa

 

As my artist’s statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance.- Calvin & Hobbes

 

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln

 

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.- Pablo Picasso

 

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.” Abigail Adams.- Marcus Aurelius

 

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.- Abigail Adams

 

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.- Oscar Wilde

 

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.- Jimmy Carter

 

You can’t outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little side bets about the outcome of life. Either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don’t play at all. And if you don’t play you can’t win.” – Judith McNaught

 

I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect, they are much more interesting.— Marc Jacobs

 

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me – G. W. F. Hegel

 

It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot

 

Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate. — Anonymous

 

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. –Babe Ruth

 

If you want to be happy, be.– Leo Tolstoy

 

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. – William Shakespeare

 

The best way to predict the future is to create it.- Abraham Lincoln

 

I’ve gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller’s parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.-New York City detective

 

Now I look beyond what I can’t do and focus on what I CAN. – Robert M. Hensel

 

Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not. – Deepak Chopra

 

Fashion you can buy, but style you possess. The key to style is learning who you are, which takes years. There’s no how-to road map to style. It’s about self expression and, above all, attitude. —Iris Apfel

 

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone. – John Locke

 

It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

 

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.  — James Baldwin, novelist and social critic

 

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. –Helen Keller

 

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.– Thomas A. Edison

 

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.- Martin Luther King Jr

 

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!-  Audrey Hepburn

 

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.— Norm Crosby

 

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.- John Ruskin

 

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk and to act. – André Malraux

 

Trendy is the last stage before tacky. —Karl Lagerfeld

 

Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward. – Søren Kierkegaard

 

Success does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. – Mahatma Gandhi

 

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation. — Ray L. Wilbur, third president of Stanford University

 

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. – Dr. Seuss

 

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. – Albert Einstein

 

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.- Marilyn Monroe 

 

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.- Galileo Galilei

 

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. — Kurt Vonnegut

 

You put your intention and your attention on what it is that you want to shift and change.- Wayne Dyer

 

If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.– Mario Andretti

 

People will stare. Make it worth their while. —Harry Winston

 

Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know. – Bertrand Russell

 

Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you’re right. – Henry Ford

 

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.  — Franklin P. Jones, American humorist

 

If life were predictable it would cease to be life and be without flavor. – Eleanor Roosevelt

 

Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there’s an element of talent you should probably possess. But if you just stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen.– Dax Shepard

 

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.- Tony Robbins

 

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.- Queen Victoria

 

Just the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.- Carl Sagan

 

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.- Charles Dickens

 

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing. –  Denis Waitley

 

Elegance is elimination. —Cristóbal Balenciaga

 

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. – Immanuel Kant

 

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. – John F. Kennedy

 

Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun. — Mignon McLaughlin, journalist and author

 

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.- Abraham Lincoln

 

The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference.– Elie Wiesel

 

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.-  Dalai Lama

 

Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.- Benjamin Franklin

 

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.- Jean Rostand

 

Your brain is the most important organ in your body, and what happens in it determines what you think and feel, say and do.- Rick Hanson, Hardwiring Happiness

 

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. – Oprah Winfrey

 

Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally. —Christian Louboutin

 

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. – William James

 

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

 

Hugs can do great amounts of good, especially for children.”  — Diana, Princess of Wales

 

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.– Elie Wiesel

 

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.- Victor Hugo

 

“I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse. – Florence Nightingale

 

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. — Lily Tomlin

 

We tend to get what we expect.- Norman Vincent Peale

 

Leap and the net will appear.– Zen Proverb

 

Style is the only thing you can’t buy. It’s not in a shopping bag, a label, or a price tag. It’s something reflected from our soul to the outside world—an emotion.— Alber Elbaz

 

History is Philosophy teaching by examples –Thucydides

 

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.– Muhammad Ali

 

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, author and poet

 

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. –Oscar Wilde

 

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.– Henry Ward Beecher

 

Love the life you live. Live the life you love. Bob Marley

 

We’re gonna live. Like we’re telling the best story in the whole world.?- Penelope Stamp

 

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back. – Richard Lewis

 

Having known both the peaks and the valleys of public life, I have learned that you cannot really appreciate the heights unless you have also experienced the depths.- Richard Nixon

 

Saying it is impossible to live without failing at something is impossible. Unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. – J.K. Rowling

 

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. —Coco Chanel

 

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god – Aristotle

 

Life is 10% what happens and 90% of how you react to it.” – Charles Swindoll

 

Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.  — Robert Fulghum

 

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin. –Tony Robbins

 

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.– Harriet Tubman

 

God helps those that help themselves. Benjamin Franklin

 

My momma always said, ‘life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get’.- Forrest Gump

 

We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. — Robert Wilensky

 

Wilma Rudolph, Helen Keller, Walt Disney, Joan of Arc, Nelson Mandela, and Thomas Edison, to name a few, not only climbed mountains, they exceeded limits and expanded boundaries, setting the tone for those who respect and admire them.- Eric Thomas

 

Every man dies, but not every man really lives. – Braveheart

 

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery. —Yves Saint Laurent

 

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation – Plato

 

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.-Theodore“Teddy”Roosevelt

 

Old men can make war, but it is children who will make history.  — Ray Merritt

 

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love. –Mother Teresa

 

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.– Sigmund Freud

 

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.- Benjamin Franklin.

 

But it ain’t about how hard you hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much can you take and keep moving forward. Rocky

 

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? – Scott Adams

 

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.- Charles Kettering

 

I don’t think you’re human if you don’t get nervous. –  Sidney Crosby

 

Playing dress-up begins at age five and never truly ends.— Kate Spade

 

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly – Francis Bacon

 

Anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me. — Fred Rogers

 

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. – Albert Einstein

 

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. – Vince Lombardi

 

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.– Jim Morrison

 

I came, I saw, I conquered. – Julius Caesar

 

Just because someone stumbles and loses their path, doesn’t mean they’re lost forever.- Charles Xavier

 

If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.- Anon

 

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.- Seneca

 

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. – Chinese Proverb

 

Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered. —Giorgio Armani

 

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.-  Edmund Burke

 

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.- Christopher Columbus

 

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments — tenderness for what he is and respect for what he may become.  — Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist

 

The purpose of our lives is to be happy. – Dalai Lama

 

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.– Harriet Tubman

 

I think, therefore I am.- René Descartes

 

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.- Gandalf

 

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it. — Clarence Darrow

 

Bad things are not the worst thing that can happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us.- Richard Bach

 

Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is. – Jimmy Carter

 

The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo, but to be known for a silhouette. —Giambattista Valli

 

Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man’s? – Friedrich Nietzsche

 

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. – Aristotle

 

A child is a curly dimpled lunatic.  — Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. – John Lennon

 

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.– Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

To be, or not to be, that is the question.- William Shakespeare

 

Sometimes it’s the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine.- Christopher Morcom

 

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it. — Cullen Hightower

 

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.- George Bernard Shaw

 

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. – John A. Shedd

 

I want people to see the dress but focus on the woman. —Vera Wang

 

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. – Bertrand Russell

 

Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. – Coco Chanel

 

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.  —  Albert Einstein

 

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. – Mae West

 

Life is trying things to see if they work.– Ray Bradbury

 

That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.- Neil Armstrong

 

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.- The White Queen

 

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. –Cyril Connolly

 

Just disconnect. Once in a day sometimes, sit silently and from all connections disconnect yourself.- Yoda

 

Religion is the sign of the oppressed … it is the opium of the people – Karl Marx

 

Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try. – Jack Canfield

 

We have this saying, Christy and I. We don’t wake up for less than $10,000 a day. — Linda Evangelista

 

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. – William Shakespeare

 

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.  — Fred Rogers

 

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. – Henry David Thoreau

 

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.– David Rockefeller

 

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. – Albert Einstein

 

There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.- Stephen Hawking

 

There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?- Dick Cavett

 

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.- Francis Bacon

 

The universe has no restrictions. You place restrictions on the universe with your expectations. – Deepak Chopra

 

I make clothes, women make fashion.— Azzedine Alaïa

 

Happiness is the highest good – Aristotle

 

I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 

 

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. — Harry S. Truman

 

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius

 

The No. 1 reason people fail in life is that they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.– Napoleon Hill

 

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. – John F. Kennedy

 

Don’t tell me I can’t do it; don’t tell me it can’t be done! –  Howard Hughes

 

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. – H. L. Mencken

 

Enjoy all you have while pursuing all you want.- Jim Rohn

 

May you live all the days of your life. – Jonathan Swift

 

What’s my style is not your style, and I don’t see how you can define it. It’s something that expresses who you are in your own way. —Iris Apfel

 

Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life is too short to think small.– Tim Ferris

 

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil – Baruch Spinoza

 

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. – Marcus Aurelius

 

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.  — Denis Waitley

 

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.– Steve Jobs

 

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams Eleanor Roosevelt.

 

Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for it – Katharine Whitehorn

 

 I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses. — Victor Hugo

 

When you are through changing, you are through.- Bruce Barton

 

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who’s wearing it. — Yves Saint Laurent

 

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. – Mark Twain

 

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it – Epicurus

 

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. – Babe Ruth

 

I continue to believe that if children are given the necessary tools to succeed, they will succeed beyond their wildest dreams! —  David Vitter

 

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. – Hans Christian Andersen

 

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.– George S. Patton

 

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.- Benjamin Franklin

 

I’m either going to be a writer or a bum – Carl Sandburg

 

I took a speed reading course and read ‘War and Peace’ in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. — Woody Allen

 

Experience has been a stern but excellent teacher. – Og Mandino

 

Do one thing every day that scares you. – Eleanor Roosevelt

 

Whoever said that money can’t buy happiness, simply didn’t know where to go shopping. — Bo Derek

 

Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable – G. W. F. Hegel

 

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr

 

I never dreamed about success, I worked for it. – Estée Lauder

 

Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life. – John Wooden

 

May you live all the days of your life.– Jonathan Swift

 

Family is the most important thing in the world.- Diana, Princess of Wales

 

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. –  J.K Rowling

 

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking. — Albert Einstein

 

Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully.- Albert Camus

 

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan

 

Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself. —Oscar de la Renta

 

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness – Immanuel Kant

 

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. – D. H. Lawrence

 

You can’t give up! When you give up, you’re like everybody else!– Chris Evert

 

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.– Winston Churchill

 

All I was doing was trying to get home from work.-  Rosa Parks

 

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.-  Ernest Hemingway

 

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. — André Gide

 

You’ll be richer in the end than a prince, if you’re a friend.-
Edgar A. Guest

 

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. – George Addair

 

Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, and of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys, they’d just walk around naked at all times.—Betsey Johnson

 

Man is condemned to be free – Jean-Paul Sartre

 

You must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide. – Ingrid Bergman

 

Life is a long lesson in humility.  – James M. Barrie

 

You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.– Jason Mraz

 

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.- Lao Tzu

 

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.- Stephen King

 

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.— Aristotle

 

It always seems impossible until it’s done. – Nelson Mandela

 

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. – Bill Cosby

 

The joy of dressing is an art.— John Galliano

 

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth– John Locke

 

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. – Leo Tolstoy

 

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. –Robert Frost

 

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.– Jim Rohn

 

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.- Michael Jordan

 

I’ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.-  Maya Angelou

 

 I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer. — Aryeh Frimer

 

Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.- Winston Churchill

 

Your dreams are ballbusters; they’re not the yellow brick road.– Kelly Cutrone

 

Luxury is the ease of a T-shirt in a very expensive dress. ―Karl Lagerfeld

 

Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you. – Walt Whitman

 

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. – Dr. Seuss

 

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.– Ayn Rand

 

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.- Muhammad Ali

 

We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong. — Bill Vaughan

 

A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world. – Kahlil Gibran

 

Screw it, let’s do it! – Richard Branson

 

When in doubt, wear red. — Bill Blass

 

There are three things you can do with your life: You can waste it, you can spend it, or you can invest it. The best use of your life is to invest it in something that will last longer than your time on Earth. – Rick Warren

 

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.– Bob Dylan

 

Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong. –  Mahatma Gandhi

 

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter. –Blaise Pasca

 

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.-
W. Somerset Maugham

 

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.– Ellen DeGeneres

 

The way I dress depends on how I feel. I never have to psych myself up. Usually it just feels like it works. — Rihanna

 

I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. – George S. Patton

 

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. – Bil Keane

 

It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.- Vince Lombardi

 

 Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it. – Cale Yarborough

 

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. – Oprah Winfrey

 

You can’t have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you. – Marissa Mayer

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